No country in their right mind should ever buy weapons from the United States again if our president can just shut them off as an act of treason or manipulation.
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I'm overdosing on schadenfreude. How many of these big arms execs were probably supporting Trump? Between 8% per year Pentagon budget cuts and destroying their cred with foreign buyers they are so hosed. It was all ok as long as only those other people were going to be hurt...
Oh yeah, I forgot Swedish and Norwegian arms manufacturers. They're going to make bank as long as they can remove US built components that have a "phone home kill switch"...
Trump never thinks even one move ahead. He has a checkers level strategic sense EXCEPT when bullying and inflicting pain.
From a source: Raytheon operations leadership is saying in an all hands that it sounds like there’s going to be peace in the Ukraine and Raytheon customers are bigger than Europe.
Agreed. Make it a condition of sale. However, if he can do it...so can a hacker, potentially. This is not good from a cyber security perspective and we should be careful with smart weapons in general l.
I am really afraid that Germany might go on with the procurement of F-35s.
Comes the big day, we will then be left with rather expensive paperweights. And e v e r y o n e here will be totallly taken aback. So unforeseeable.
Trump and his sycophants clearly don't understand that the military requirements for interoperability for NATO grossly favour US military equipment suppliers. Why would they? Ignoramouses as they are
One of his henchmen was on channel 4 news tonight saying how tired Russia was, that they'd lost a lot of tanks & needed a break. As if we should feel sorry for them. It is precisely why we need to shore up Ukraine!!
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Where did the UK buy its 'independent' nuclear deterrent missiles? And all the stuff you need to make them credible?
BOEING, RTX, Lockheed Martin are all totally screwed. Many of the more sophisticated systems have a kill switch and the F-35 is the worst
Trump never thinks even one move ahead. He has a checkers level strategic sense EXCEPT when bullying and inflicting pain.
Europe, be warned. Defend yourselves.
Comes the big day, we will then be left with rather expensive paperweights. And e v e r y o n e here will be totallly taken aback. So unforeseeable.
They should see if China is interested in purchasing some non working HIMARS for scrap purposes.
Western Civ, (Enlightenment) is science/empiricism, civil rights, democratic governance, *intl. stability*, safety nets.
Musk's on Rogan (Feb 28) says it all:
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy..."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html
Are the people in the Orange administration suicidal?! I just don't get this move at all. It's so massively fucking stupid and suicidal.
How long until the American arms industry do the thing they must and Mr Orange becomes fertilizer?